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...momentum for change, either by bringing to trial a man once considered a national hero and thereby alienating a large segment of our population, or by making public any role by elected politicians and army chiefs and thereby destabilizing our current leadership. We know that Pakistan has made grievous errors in the past. This is the moment to correct our errors quickly and to move on rather than to focus on assigning blame...
However, I hasten to point out one grievous error of transposition. In your third to final paragraph, you mistakenly refer to Yale’s esteemed graduate, Charles Montgomery Burns (more commonly known as C. Montgomery Burns) as “Montgomery C. Burns.” As the president of Yale’s only official student organization dedicated to his life and work, I could not let this error go uncorrected...
Tomb Raiders Your Story "Spirited Away" described how art thieves are stripping Asia's cultural sites of their valuable artworks and smuggling them abroad for sale [Oct. 20]. It is grievous to see that so many of our cultural artifacts are stolen and mishandled. Your story played a very important role in warning people that the preservation of priceless antiquities is in our hands, and we must crack down on the looters and preserve the past. We also need to ingrain the idea of guarding our Asian heritage and make the looters understand that the more artifacts are stolen...
...Grievous Loss The death of U.N. diplomat and humanitarian Sergio Vieira de Mello in the attack on U.N. headquarters in Baghdad was shocking [Sept. 1]. Vieira de Mello, the head of the U.N.'s mission in Iraq, was an indefatigable servant of peace. To have the extraordinary life of such an accomplished and refined man so brutally snuffed out is a devastating loss. In his career, Vieira de Mello exemplified all the qualities we value most: selflessness, devotion, candor, leadership, compassion and integrity. He inspired trust and stood for the individual making a profound difference. The displaced, war-torn, oppressed...
...year for their child to be backward. Should she tell them I learned to read before I came to Waldorf? That in the hours that my friends learned the alphabet through the shapes of animals, I had a book hidden under my desk? That I regularly complain about the grievous gaps in my high school education...